The bubonic plague killed people on the Iberian Peninsula 3,300 years ago. The genome of ‘Yersinia pestis’, the bacterium that causes the disease, has been identified in a tooth of a man buried in the El Sotillo dolmen, in Leza (Álava), a megalithic tomb excavated in the 1960s where remains were found of thirteen individuals and num
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